Eddie Izzard.

Last Updated on March 16, 2024 by Phil Nobile Jr.

Last month came word that Eddie Izzard was fronting a new spin on the Robert Louis Stevenson classic with Doctor Jekyll, and the world hissed โ€œYES.โ€ In more perfect news, we learn today that the B Good Picture Company production has been picked up for UK distribution by no less than Hammer Studios!

Izzard is of course no stranger to horror, having appeared in Bryan Fullerโ€™s intriguing Munsters reboot Mockingbird Lane ten years ago (as Grandpa!), as well as Fullerโ€™s excellent Hannibal series (#HannibalSeason4 when?) and E. Elias Merhigeโ€™s Shadow of the Vampire back in 2000.

Now, says Variety, she will reinvent the classic character as โ€œDr. Nina Jekyll, a recluse who finds friendship with her newly hired help, Rob (Scott Chambers), and they must work together to prevent Hyde from destroying her life.โ€ The release pointedly does not mention whoโ€™s playing Hyde, but surely Izzard is essaying both roles, and theyโ€™re just hanging back on that specific reveal for a later moment. But seeing how Hammer has toyed with Jekyll, Hyde, and gender before โ€” giving us, in this writerโ€™s opinion, one of the best versions of the character(s) โ€” thereโ€™s no reason to be coy about it now! This should be fun.

Doctor Jekyll is directed by Joe Stephenson with a script by Dan Kelly-Mulhern. No word yet on a release date or FANGORIA set invite.